The French Motorsport Federation Viper♒ will has l🌞ost its battle to rejoin the Le MAns 24 Hours, after being involved in the early race crash at Porsche Curves.

Despite driver Davidꦯ Terrien's frantic - and unstinting - efforts to return the shat🤡tered car to its garage, the ORECA-assisted operation has decided that the car was too badly damaged to continue.

Terrien fought to get the car back from the grass verge at Porsche to the entrance to the pit-lane, where, its steerin❀g damaged, it simply refused to negotiate the chicane. Much effort - physical✤ and mental, when Terrien cobbled together a repair - later, the red, white and blue Viper finally made it back to the garage, where the mechanics were finally able to help the struggling driver.

Sadly, however, its condition - which included front and rear damage, as well as a missing driver's door - precluded ෴safe repair and the car joined fellow accident victim Ro💦wan Racing on the sidelines.